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Chocolate Pot, Sterling Silver, By Guillaume Angilles, Dunkirk, 1744

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"Chocolate Pot, Sterling Silver, By Guillaume Angilles, Dunkirk, 1744"

Chocolate pot

Hammered sterling silver, melted and repelled

By Guillaume Angilles, master goldsmith of 1731-1744

Dunkirk, 1744

height: 29cm; Weight (gross): 1130g

Very good condition, reinforcement on one side at creation, small restoration at the hinge of the fretel, original polishing

Piriform shape of a chocolate pot with ten sides interrupted at mid-height by a belt of filigree fillets. The same sections extend on a bell cover, with a dotted ribbed border, to a flat terrace covered by a dome with dotted and radiating decor, hinged to open the frother. The fretel is a flourishing seed. The attachments of the three feet are stylized shells, the feet ending in coiled shells rising on beveled stems. The five-sided beak is adorned with nets applied at mid-height, and a threaded base at its base. The framed handle is joined to the body by a dome-shaped rosette echoed at the edge of the cover, the socket is in turned ebony. Alliance coats of arms engraved on one side.

Hallmarks: under the body: Master: GA, surmounted by a crown with three points, for Guillaume Angilles [Helft, n ° 472d]; Common house: X under an archduke crown for Dunkirk, 1744; Recognition of Dunkirk: crowned dolphin for Dunkirk, around 1730-1760 [Helft, n ° 467b];

Coat of arms of the Schaw family (Scotish, ?): Under a knight's helm in senestre, azure, three cups covered with gold, dextral, gules band on azure field, chief gold cross, double-headed golden eagle. Alliance of the Schaw family

Typical model of the production of the Generality of Lille produced in the years 1735-1745. It is distinguished by the feet and their fasteners, lietmotiv in the production in Dunkirk of the master and his widow as well as the goldsmith Jean Schouteer (chocolate maker of 1751), the number of sides which rather than twelve in Lille, Arras and Saint -Omer is here ten.

Ref. : Helft, Jacques: "The hallmarks of the French provinces", 1968; Messiant, G & Pfister-Langanay: "New discoveries in Dunkirk goldsmithery (17th-18th century)", Revue du Nord, 1992; Messiant, G & Pfister-Langanay: "Orfèvrerie en Flandre- Bergues - Dunkerque, XVIIe-XIXe", Exhibition from December 4, 1980 to February 15, 1981